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HBS Working Knowledge Is Your Company In Synch?

"Rather than tear down organizational walls, you can make them permeable to information. You can synchronize all your company's data on products, filtering it through linked databases and applications and delivering it in a coordinated, meaningful form to customers. As a result, you can present a single, unified face to the customer?a face that can change as market conditions warrant?without imposing organizational homogeneity on your people. Such synchronization can lead not just to stronger customer relationships and hence more sales but also to greater operational efficiency. It allows a company, for example, to avoid the high costs of maintaining many different information systems with redundant data. By creating the equivalent of a HotSync button for your company, you can enhance your market responsiveness while at the same time reducing your costs."

Argus Center for Information Architecture Information Architecture and Business Strategy
"Business strategy and information architecture are closely inter-related. For most organizations, the days of slapping a web site on top of an existing business strategy are gone. Web sites, extranets, and intranets play key roles in defining relationships between a company and its customers, investors, suppliers, and employees. The structure and organization of these sites is critical to success.

For this reason, it's silly to get caught up in the chicken-and-egg problem. You don't need a fully-formed business strategy to begin developing an information architecture strategy."

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